Journal Junction for December 4

December 4, 2013

Editor's note: Journal Junction offers the public a forum to applaud successes, discuss issues, point out problems and review the events of the day in a constructive manner. Journal Junction comments should be limited to two to four sentences and be no longer than 80 words. Longer comments should be submitted as "Letters to the Editor,"?which is a separate forum. The Journal's classified ads section offers help to those with lost or found items. This is a sampling of comments received today. Any others, subject to editing, are published in the online Journal Junction at www.journal-news.net under opinions.

From Gerrardstown:

To the contributor from Martinsburg: there is a very simple reason retailers can encroach on family holidays. To paraphrase Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us." If consumers did not shop on Thanksgiving, the stores would not be open. So, does that let the Tea Party and Republicans off the hook for keeping stores open? To imply they have anything to do with shopping hours is absurd!

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From Charles Town:

In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy immediately admitted his mistakes about Cuba to the public. Why doesn't President Obama do the same about his health care? Our president is a nice man; he just did not have the experience to run our country.

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From Martinsburg:

To the person wanting to know where you use the restroom if you're standing in line at Best Buy for 14 hours: They have two port-a-pots out front there. You would know that if you'd driven by.

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From Hedgesville:

The terms "advanced degree" or "advanced certificates" in education are oxymorons because they are so easy to get. I know because I have several of them. The classes are most just a bunch of psychobabble, I learned absolutely nothing even though I got A's in all the classes. The only thing these enabled me to do was to get more money from the taxpayers. Notice I did not say "earn" more money.